Re: Need Info on Checksum Offloading

Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
15 Nov 2001 07:16:27 +0100


harish.vasudeva@amd.com writes:

> Hi All,
>
> Could any1 pls direct me wherein i could find some documentation about implementing checksum offloading for my ethernet LAN driver?

include/linux/skbuff.h has a big fat comment describing checksums handling.
Just read it.

For RX checksums you just set ip_summed of the incoming skb
to CHECKSUM_UNNCESSARY (you did a complete check of the checksum;
not recommended as you're unlikely to support all weird protocols) or
CHECKSUM_HW (you put a checksum of the TCP/UDP data area minus pseudo header
and ip header into skb->csum) or CHECKSUM_NONE for sw checksum.

-Andi
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